Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_ECHO in

Just when I thought I was out of the woods on this application, I decided to block someone that simply clicks the Submit button without entering any data.

I looked up the use for "if (empty($field) == TRUE" and i was pretty certain I had it right,. I still had a few punctuation errors in there, so i corrected them and ran again. Now I'm stumped. The IF statement i what's failing. Here is the before and after code too: